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post #16 of 27
1/12/12 at 5:18pm

does it happen with multiple songs and in consistant ways?  I'm not familiar with your (or any) soundcard but the 650 does need some real power to get it going (Im assuming more than any normal sound card can provide).  Your amp may simply not have the power it needs and you're hearing the results.  Don't you have a stereo/home theater or something you can plug them into to help isolate the problem. Or use different headphones on your 'puter.

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post #17 of 27
1/12/12 at 5:31pm

Most likely rattle due to foreign objects on the HD650 driver. Like I said, remove the grill and check inside.

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post #18 of 27
1/12/12 at 6:32pm

im guessing its either rattle from foreign objects mentioned above or the cans are revealing noise in the recordings.

 

even big name bands (RHCP comes to mind) have less than perfect recording/mastering that my beyers or 650s will reveal

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post #19 of 27
1/13/12 at 1:59am
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First  of all the soundcard has a built-in headphone amp whch can handle up to 600 ohm so i guess power is not the problem, especially because they worked just fine for more than 2 weeks.

 

The quality of the music I listen to is good enough, I have listened to the same music with the same setup just before and everything was fine. I mostly have either ALAC, FLAC or just mp3s with good bitrate, and the mastering on them is damn good.

 

I will check the driver on my soundcard, but for now I'd just like to know if it couldn't be possible that my left can is damaged or anything like that?


Edited by chayYEAH - 1/13/12 at 2:02am
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post #20 of 27
1/13/12 at 3:34am

When I say driver, I mean the HEADPHONE driver lol. The thing where the sound comes from in the headphones. Just pop off the grill of the HD650 to get access to it.

 

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Edited by idletime1213 - 1/13/12 at 3:37am
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post #21 of 27
1/18/12 at 11:16am
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I just opened them and I can see no dirt at all, nothing. It all seems to be fine :(

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post #22 of 27
1/18/12 at 11:33am
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Okay I might have a major problem now, no idea.

 

I opened them, had a look, all looked clean, and then I wanted to have a look at the driver, but when I wanted to take it out one of the 4 little plastic tabs which keep the driver in place broke off. Is this just bad or very bad? Anybody know what I should do now? I think the next step is try to get it repaired somewhere.

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post #23 of 27
1/18/12 at 11:46am
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Oh god right so I checked the driver now anyways, there was a hair in it and the headphones sound fine again but will I have to worry about the small plastic tab which broke off?

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post #24 of 27
1/18/12 at 2:53pm

Can you take a pic of it? I'm not sure what you mean by tabs,

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post #25 of 27
1/19/12 at 10:25pm
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I mean the 4 small plastic bits which keep the driver in position, but I will take a pic when I'm home.

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post #26 of 27
2/25/12 at 6:49am

It happens only with bass, like something vibrating? About 5 years ago when they were new, mine did that for a month, than stopped.

 

 

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post #27 of 27
2/25/12 at 6:55am

You can post a snippet of the song you're having problems with so other people with HD650 can test.

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